26 May 2023
I glued a piece of folded cardboard over a styrofoam fuselage blank for nose weight. Then the colour profiles were glued first to one side, trimmed the foam/cardboard and then the other side. A small slot cut at bottom for hooking on a rubber band.
5 May 2023
Blow through a launcher tube and the plane shoots out. It's a blow powered glider. This is not new, decades ago, some modellers have devised and flown such models. Let's hope that we are not spitting saliva.
A length of plastic straw (or rolled paper tube) has the front capped and is affixed to a model. A blow pipe which fits inside the previous straw and by blowing into this blow pipe, the model is propelled forward.
The article I read has the straw longer than the length of the model. I think the straw can be shorter because I don't think a very long length helps to propell it further or faster.
I think a modular system is good fun.
- Find 2 plastic straws, one fitting smoothly over the other. The bigger straw is the one to be glued to the model and the smaller straw is the blow pipe.
- Cut a few 3-5 cm length of straw with a foam or balsa cap glued on one end.
- Model is made from thin paper (printed or unprinted): cut the planform and glue the side profiles.
- Strip of paper glued around the straw and the ends glued to the bottom of the model.
Don't hyper-ventilate, don't spit and be civil.
Example, artwork from www.cybermodeler.com:
